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The Academy has picked fifteen films for the Visual Effects category. Out of the fifteen, ten will be chosen in early January, then five for the final nominations to be announced January 25.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences narrowed their list for the Animated Short Films category. Forty-four films originally qualified and now, we're down to 10.

Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech," Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" won the film categories at the 13th Annual CDG (Costume Designers Guild) Awards.

Christopher Nolan's "Inception" won big at the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards. The mind-bending movie took home two awards including best sound editing in the categories of sound effects & foley and music in a feature film.

"The Social Network" editors, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter, won the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Dramatic Feature at the 61st Annual ACE Eddie Awards. The David Fincher film beat "Black Swan," "The Fighter," "Inception," and "The King's Speech." We'll see if "The Social Network" will beat those movies (except for "Inception" which was not nominated in favor of "127 Hours") at the upcoming 83rd Academy Awards.

The granddaddy of the awards season, the Academy Awards, has unveiled its nominations for the 83rd Oscars! While the usual suspects were given nods, there were still a few surprises. Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem squeezed in and bumped Robert Duvall out from the Best Actor category. Duvall's performance in "Get Low" is nominated for a SAG award but the Academy chose Bardem in his foreign-language nominated film, "Biutiful."